CXI. 

 HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS. 



Common Hyssop. 



Class XIV. Didynamia. — Order I. Gymnospermia. 



Nat. Ord. Labiate. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla with the upper 

 lip erect, semi-bifid ; lower lip three- parted, with the 

 intermediate segment subcrenate. Stamens straight, 

 distant. 



Spec. Char. Flowers whorled, racemose, unilateral. 

 Calycine teeth erect. Leaves lanceolate. 



SYN ONYMKS. 



Greek vaatatros ? 



( Hyssopus officinarum cxrulea scu spicata. Bauh. Pin. 217. 

 J Hyssopus arabum. Ger. Em. 579. 

 j Hyssopus coronata sive coraosa Clusii. Park. Theatr. 2. 



i Hyssopus officinalis. Lin. Sp. PI. 796. Jacq. Austr. t. 254. 

 French. . . . Hysope ; Hysope officinal. 

 Italian .... Isopo ; Issopo. 



Spanish Hisopo. 



Portuguese. Hyssopo. 

 German. . . . Isopp. 



Dutch Hysop ; Yzoop. 



Dan.SfSwe. lsop. 



Polish Isopek. 



Bohemian. . Yzop. 

 Arabic .... Zufe ; Ayzof. 



Description. — The root is perennial, ligneous, about the thick- 

 ness of the finger, somewhat branched, and fibrous. The stems, 



